[R] help.search warning?

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Tue, 12 Aug 2008, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:

> On Mon, 11 Aug 2008, Dong-hyun Oh wrote:
>
>> Dear useRs,
>> 
>> When I executed help.search(), I got nothing other than the following 
>> warning message.
>> 
>> R> help.search("print")
>> Error in help.search("print") :
>> (converted from warning) removing all entries with invalid multi-byte 
>> character data
>> 
>> I am using Leopard 10.5.4 and R-2.7.1.
>> 
>> How to solve the above problem?
>
> Remove the packages which have non-UTF-8 data.  But why did you convert a 
> warning to an error?
>
> There are some (CRAN and other) packages which do not have correct 
> declarations for their encoding, and this causes such warnings.

On my system those packages are

FracSim distributions kappalab rindex survrec

all of which appear to be in Latin-1 but do not have a declared encoding.

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